A 13-year-old told how she was taken to a hotel by a group of people where a young man performed sex acts on her there and at his own home.

The girl, who is now 14, said: "He knew full well that I was 13 because I had told him my age, I don't exactly look older than 13, either."

In a police interview played to Guildford Crown Court on Monday (February 27) the witness, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, said she thought the male who went to bed with her was someone in his late teens.

"I didn't know he was an adult. I thought he was a teenager," she told police when she was being questioned last year (2016).

The DVD interview was played at the trial of four defendants who deny charges of transporting young girls to be exploited.

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Diane Chilcott, 39, of Rutherwyk Road in Chertsey, Daniel Pusey, 20, of Money Lane in West Drayton, Robert Carson, 18, of Gurnell Grove in Ealing, and Jerrell Sutherland, 24, of Milwards in Harlow all deny four offences of facilitating travel to exploit.

The three men deny a fifth charge of facilitating travel to exploit.

Mr Pusey alone denies six charges of penetrative sexual activity with a child and one of non-penetrative sexual activity with a child.

Drinking

The court heard that the girl, who was discovered by police in bed with Mr Pusey at his home in West Drayton after her father had raised concerns about her welfare, initially denied that anything sexual had happened between them.

But later she changed her account, saying that there had been sexual activity. She also said she had been drinking beforehand.

Recalling one incident said to have happened at a Travelodge Hotel, she said: "I don't know where the hotel was."

She said she was then driven to the home of a middle-aged woman who tried to put her to bed there and then she was taken to a house in Hayes.

She said Mr Pusey would collect her in his silver Astra.

She said that among the people who had gone to hotels with her and other girls were two males referred to as Erbs and Bert.

"I kept saying no"

She said she was at Mr Pusey's house when he tried to have sex with her.

During the police interview, the witness wept as she was asked to go into details about what happened.

Sobbing, she said: "I don't want to keep saying it."

She said: "If I hadn't been drinking, it wouldn't have happened."

The girl added: "I had never done that before."

Recalling another occasion, she said that Pusey kept putting his hands down near her private parts.

"But I kept saying no," she said.

Describing the older woman, the 13-year-old, who is now 14, said the lady was in her 30s or 40s with hair tied back in a bun.